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Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...
of Chiltern - although he is a man of power and a man admired by many because he is a well-bred human, he nonetheless hides a terr...
Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...
concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...
from the fact that I realized that I knew nothing. A man of my era named Chaerephon once asked the Oracle at Delphi is there w...
shtetl, the Jewish ghetto, had become unbearable under Tsarist rule. Chernin recognized that the women of her family had an abund...
readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...
stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...
what man believes he can confront and ultimately overcome and what the bitter truth of reality says he can accomplish when up agai...
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
to that of a man and saw womens role in society as being purely to serve men. When they were "no longer willing to fill that role,...
representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...
experience, clearly illustrating how her lack of inner strength and fortitude is what stands in the way of her finding true happin...
of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...
is a story about change - the change in a man, people he recognizes and knew his entire life did not recognize this man who Garl...
a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...
indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...
seen in any other character in the novel. He began to see that he was different, and not human. Then he came upon a bundle that...
nine Books relate Augustines life up to the death of his mother and then, the story takes an abrupt turn as Augustine puts forth h...
as the term is defined. They use and are used in like fashion. Neos character is more of the classic hero archetype. However, Bu...
he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...
originate in the collective unconscious of the race as a whole, saying that they were "primordial images which have always been th...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
other words, through the words of the author, the Aborigines are no longer just a group of people in Australia, but rather they ar...
Carol is seeking help from her professor, but also knows how to manipulate the situation for her advantage. John provides Carol w...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...